Exodus 15:25-26
25And he acried to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a log, ▼▼Or tree
and he cthrew it into the water, and the water became sweet. There the Lord ▼
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made for them a statute and a rule, and there he etested them, 26saying, f“If you will diligently listen to the voice of the Lord your God, and do that which is right in his eyes, and give ear to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the gdiseases on you that I put on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, hyour healer.” Exodus 16:4
4Then the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, I am about to rain ibread from heaven for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day, that I may jtest them, whether they will walk in my law or not.Deuteronomy 8:2
2And you shall remember the whole way that the Lord your God has led you kthese forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, ltesting you mto know what was in your heart, nwhether you would keep his commandments or not.Deuteronomy 13:3
3you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams. For the Lord your God ois testing you, to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.Judges 2:22
22in order pto test Israel by them, whether they will take care to walk in the way of the Lord as their fathers did, or not.”2 Samuel 24:1
David’s Census
1 q, rAgain the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he incited David against them, saying, s“Go, number Israel and Judah.”2 Chronicles 32:31
31And so in the matter of the envoys of the princes of Babylon, twho had been sent to him to inquire about uthe sign that had been done in the land, God left him to himself, vin order to test him and to know all that was in his heart.
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